Ctenagenia pagliano, Egger, 2019

Schmid-Egger, Christian, 2019, Two new species of Spider Wasps (Hymenoptera, Pompilidae), Ctenagenia pagliano from Lebanon and Evagetes liane from Canary Islands, Linzer biologische Beiträge 51 (2), pp. 1205-1210 : 1206

Ctenagenia pagliano SCHMID- EGGER nov.sp. ( figs 1-3 )

Holotype: 1♀ 8.ix.2010 Lebanon, Fghal [34.208N, 35.676E], leg. L. Picciau (coll. Schmid-Egger).

Paratype: 1♀ same data as holotype (coll. Schmid-Egger).

Diagnosis: Ctenagenia pagliano nov.sp. is easy to recognize by its overall yellow and orange body colour. Remaing species are black coloured, C. ozbeki WAHIS, 2002 has also a partly dark red mesosoma and tergites, and lemmon yellow abdominal bands. Erect propodeal pubescence is pale, less dense and very sparse in C. pagliono, and black or brown and denser in C. ozbeki , and C. vespiformis KLUG, 1834. C. pagliono can also distinghuished from C. ozbeki by smaller ocelli and from C. vespiformis by four basitarsal spines instead of five. See WAHIS (2002) for recognition of C. ozbeki and C. vespiformis .

Description female: Body length ca 20 mm (cannot be measured exactly, because abdomen is curved down in both type specimens). Colour: Whole species ocre yellow, T 2-5 with large bright yellow bands, leaving basally, apically and laterally a darker margin. Head and mesosoma with long, erect setae, in average as long as AS 1. Wing transparent, wing venation yellow, stigma white. Morphology: Forebasitarsus with four spines, apical spine as long as 2. tarsal segment. Labrum medially emarginated, rooflike, with medial groove. Malar space as long as diameter of hindocellus. Diameter of hindocellus 0,5x as long as POL and as OOL. Metapostnotum deeply impressed, half as long as scutellum, shiny. Propodeum coarsely sculptured, but finer as in C. vespiformis . Agree in remaining aspects with C. vespiformis .

Male: Unknown.

Etymology: The species is dedicated to Guido Pagliano from Turino/ Italy, a specialist of Mutillidae and other Aculeata families, who left the type specimens to me. The name is a noun in apposition.

Distribution: Lebanon.

Figures

Figs 1-3: (1) Ctenagenia pagliano holotype ♀ dorsal view; (2) Ctenagenia pagliano holotype ♀ face; (3) Ctenagenia pagliano holotype ♀ forewing.